Decentring and Diversifying Southeast Asian Studies: Perspectives from the Region

List of Contributors

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Wang Gungwu is University Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. His research interests focus on Chinese and Southeast Asian history. He recently edited Nation-building: Five Southeast Asian Histories (2005); and co-edited (2008 with Zheng Yongnian) China and the New International Order. Taufik Abdullah is Chairman of the Social Commission, Indonesian Academy of Sciences (Akademi Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia) and AKADEMI JAKARTA (Arts and Culture). He was previously Director of the National Economic and Social Research Institute (LEKNAS) from 1974–78, and Head of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) from 2000–2002. His research focuses on Southeast Asian history, with special interests in Indonesian local history. His recently completed volume, Indonesia: Towards Democracy, was published by ISEAS. Reynaldo Ileto is Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore. His research interests include religion and social movements in Southeast Asia, nationalism and revolution in the Philippines, Tagalog literature, and the politics of memory and knowledge production. The author of two prize-winning books, he recently wrote Knowledge and Pacification: Essays on the U.S. Conquest and the Writing of Philippine History (2011). Wong Soak Koon is an independent researcher who has retired from the Universiti Sains Malaysia after thirty years of teaching literature at the School xii List of Contributors of Humanities. Her current research interests focus on contemporary Malaysian and Singaporean literature in English and Malay. Her recent works include “Exploring the Framing and Unframing of Malay-Muslim Identity in Select Malaysian Fiction” in Writing a Nation: Essays in Malaysian Literature, edited by Mohammad Quayum and Nur Faridah Manaf (International Islamic University, K.L. 2009), and “Nation and Belonging in Select Plays of Stella Kon” in Sharing Borders: Studies in Contemporary Singaporean-Malaysian Literature, Vol. 1, edited by Mohammad Quayum and Wong Phui Nam (National Library Board and National Arts Council, Singapore, 2009). Paritta Chalermpow Koanantakool was Director of the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre in Bangkok. Previously she has taught at the Faculty of Sociology and Anthropology, Thammasat University. Her research interests and publications are in the fields of shadow puppetry of southern Thailand, dance and dancers of central Thailand, and communitybased museums. Yunita Winarto is Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Anthropology at the Department of at the Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Indonesia. She currently holds the Academy Professorship of Indonesia in Social Sciences and Humanities (KNAW-AIPI), at the University of Indonesia (2009–11). at the University of Indonesia (2009–11). Her research interests focus on issues of human ecology and the dialectics of various domains of knowledge. She is the author of Seeds of Knowledge: The Beginning of Integrated Pest Management in Java (Yale University, Southeast Asia Council, 2004). Melani Budianta is Professor of Literary Studies at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Indonesia. Her research focuses on gender and postcolonial issues. Her recent works include “Diverse Voices: Indonesian Literature and Nation-Building”, in Language, Nation and Development in Southeast Asia, edited by Lee Hock Guan and Leo Suryadinata, (ISEAS, 2007), and “The Dragon Dance: Shifting Meaning of Chineseness in Indonesia”, in Asian and Pacific Cosmopolitans: Self and Subject in Motion, edited by Katherine Robinson (Palgrave, 2007). Patricio N. Abinales is Professor at the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University. His current research is on the relationship between pestilence, diseases, and state formation in the Philippines. He co-wrote with Donna Amoroso, State and Society in the Philippines (2005), and his latest book List of Contributors xiii Orthodoxy and History in the Muslim Mindanao Narrative, 1898–2006, will be published by Ateneo de Manila University Press. Goh Beng-Lan is Associate Professor and currently Head of the Southeast Asian Studies Department, National University of Singapore. Her research focuses on knowledge production, identity, and modernity in Southeast Asia. She is the author of Modern Dreams: An Inquiry into Power, Cultural Production, and the Cityscape in Contemporary Urban Penang, Malaysia (Cornell SEAP, 2002), and a co-editor of Asia in Europe, Europe in Asia: Rethinking Academic, Social and Cultural Linkages (International Institute for Asian Studies and Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2004). Abidin Kusno is Associate Professor at the Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia. He is the author of Behind the Postcolonial (Routledge, 2000), Gardu di Perkotaan Jawa (Ombak Press, 2007), and Appearances of Memory (Duke University Press...